Into a world....
Not long ago...it seems
In a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams....
Not long ago...it seems
In a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams....
Opening narration from The Nightmare Before Christmas
Hand granades, Num-chucks, daggars, dripping severed heads, drunken gatekeepers, scanty panties, whore servents, sexual innuendos, "hobby horses", pelvic thrusts, dry humping, screaming orgasms, .....and did i mention this was Shakespeare? eek Of course as done by the Toledo University Drama Department.
o yes...Macbeth. huh...u'd think that was the last play I was talking about wasn't it? hahaaa you would be wrong. that above pretty much sums up the whole play. entertaining...but i don't think our teacher would have brought us to it if she knew that even half of the stuff that was in it...was that. The first sign that I knew this play was...a miss...was when Lady Macbeth was doing her speech (i.e: "Unsex me here; and fill me from crown to the toe top-full; of direst cruelty....come to my woman's breasts; and take my milk for gall..." Act 1, scene 5, lines 41-48. yes i have a book....what a nerd) and during her speech she kept touching herself as the parts were being referred to (as if we didn't know where they were) and making elaborate tearing motions. then in that same scene where Macbeth enters shortly after.....Macbeth starts to tear off his clothes (but not fully thank god....i really didn't want to see that man naked...sure there were others but just not that one) and Lady Macbeth jumped on him and wraped her legs around him and he started to thrust as if they were just a-going at it. eek woah.....but that wasn't the worst part...or the only...but im going to cut to the drunken Gatekeeper. ok at least he was supposed to be lecherous and drunken, as how Shakespeare wrote it. but his first appearance he was almost naked...well compared to the rest of his costume. i can tell you what color underwear he was wearing (it was BLUE!). and i suppose he was going at it with a servent girl too cuz she kept on throwing clothes out for him so he could go open the gate. then when he opened the gate, one of the men he let it was going to go in the door the gatekeeper came out of and you hear a woman scream. then that man(im guessing it was a soldier) looked all embarassed.....yeh do the math. i didn't see it from where i was sitting so....use ur imagination (i know i did wink ).
ah and now lets cut to Lady Macbeth's sleep walking scene. there was supposed to be the doctor and a gentlewoman present but they used the gatekeeper and his lady-of-the-night (what's funnier is that girl was black lol) and again it comes in from where they just got done and were dressing...she putting on her underwear xD...him buttoning up his pants....and Lady Macbeth comes in, says her lines (OUT DAMN SPOT! speech) and in the middle while she is talking about king Duncan's blood she kneels down on her hands and knees and starts to groan....well it sounded more like a moan of deep pleasure (which i am pretty sure it was NOT supposed to be that way)...that lasted about.....2 minutes. what an orgasm. then she said the rest of her ines and left. then the gatekeeper and his lady-of-the-night went at it again.
the final scene, the battle scene between Macbeth and MacDuff was disappointing. i wanted a flourish of movement but all i got was Macbeth backing away slowly to the top of the stage and exiting through the door. sad and Macduff entered again a little later with the dripping (fake) severed head. there you go. that was Macbeth.
